<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">So, <DIV> basically there is a bug where the LSDyna is outputting when it shouldn't. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also this kinda sucks because say I am reading lots and lots of files, I have to deal with the overhead of failed read attempts by the LSDynaReader for every file? That seems like a problem to me. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is it possible to add extensions to the LSDyna Files?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Bitstream Vera Sans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Innovative Management & Technology Services</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Thompson, David C wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P><FONT size="2">The messages should not be output... they are coming from<BR> LSDyna's CanReadFile() method. I thought I had disabled<BR> them but I'll look into it again. If it is reading your<BR> file, then LSDyna's CanReadFile is returning the correct<BR> value.<BR> <BR> The problem is that LSDyna's output files don't have an<BR> extension (they are named d3plot, d3plot01, ...) and<BR> ParaView requires either a matching extension or (if you<BR> put always_try_can_read="1" in the Module tag of the GUI<BR> XML file) for CanReadFile to return true.<BR> <BR> David<BR> <BR> -----Original Message-----<BR> From: paraview-bounces+dcthomp=<A href="mailto:sandia.gov@paraview.org">sandia.gov@paraview.org</A> on behalf of Mike Jackson<BR> Sent: Wed 2/7/2007 9:42 AM<BR> To: ParaView<BR> Subject: [Paraview] LSDynaReader interfering with my own reader<BR> <BR> I have a custom reader that reads files with an extension of ".disl". <BR> I have my own reader for these files which worked fine under PV <BR> 2.4.4. I am now updating for PV 2.6 and when I run ParaView and <BR> select my file for reading I get the following dumped to the console.<BR> <BR> ErrorMessage<BR> # Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /Users/Shared/<BR> OpenSource/ParaView-2.6.0/VTK/Hybrid/vtkLSDynaReader.cxx (2473)<BR> vtkLSDynaReader (0x18e9c2c0): Unknown Dimensionality -2144848064 <BR> encountered<BR> ErrorMessage end<BR> ErrorMessage<BR> # Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /Users/Shared/<BR> OpenSource/ParaView-2.6.0/VTK/Hybrid/vtkLSDynaReader.cxx (3162)<BR> vtkLSDynaReader (0x18e9c2c0): Database has bad state size (0).<BR> ErrorMessage end<BR> ErrorMessage<BR> # Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /Users/Shared/<BR> OpenSource/ParaView-2.6.0/VTK/Hybrid/vtkLSDynaReader.cxx (3271)<BR> vtkLSDynaReader (0x18e9c2c0): No valid time steps in the LS-Dyna <BR> database<BR> ErrorMessage end<BR> ErrorMessage<BR> # Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /Users/Shared/<BR> OpenSource/ParaView-2.6.0/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx (757)<BR> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x18e9c9f0): Algorithm vtkLSDynaReader<BR> (0x18e9c2c0) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x18e9d720)<BR> Debug: Off<BR> Modified Time: 697866<BR> Reference Count: 1<BR> Registered Events: (none)<BR> Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION<BR> ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1<BR> FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0<BR> KEYS_TO_COPY: COMPOSITE_DATA_INFORMATION<BR> <BR> Then my reader kicks in and reads the file just fine. I looked for <BR> the obvious that the LSDynaReader was also using the ".disl" <BR> extension but from what I can tell it is not. Anyone have any ideas <BR> on this?<BR> <BR> Cheers<BR> --<BR> Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer<BR> Innovative Management & Technology Services<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> _______________________________________________<BR> ParaView mailing list<BR> <A href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org">ParaView@paraview.org</A><BR> <A href="http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview">http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview</A><BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT> </P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>